Harness-terret



(No Model.) I

A. LOBDELL.

HARNESS TERRET.

No 439,881. Patented Nov. 4, 1890.

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ALONZO LOBDELL, OF RAOINE, IVISCONSIN.

HARNESS-TERRET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,881,

dated November 4, 1890.

Application filed June 17, 1890. Serial No. 355,738. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALONZO LoBDELL, of Racine, in the county of Racine, and in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harness- Terrets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to that class of harmess-fixtures which are attached to the gigsaddle or to the hames and through which the driving-reins are passed; and my invention consists in certain peculiar and novel features of construction and arrangement, as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the appended claim.

In order that myinvention may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front or rear elevation of my improved harness-terret. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a horizontal cross-section of the same on the line3 3 of Fig. 2.

The objects of my invention are to produce a harness-terret which shall securely retain the driving-rein within it and which shall permit the rein to be inserted into it after said rein has been extended from the bridlebit to the vehicle, and which shall, furthermore, permit the driving-rein to be removed from it without drawing the full length of the rein through the terret. These results I accomplish by virtue of the construction which I will now proceed to describe.

In the drawings, A designates the terret, which is formed of a stout plate band or wire bent or curved into open spiral form with the convolutions a a and a a. The convolutions a a constitute the middle or body portion of the terret, while the convolutions a aare at opposite ends of said body portion and preferably terminate on the line of the lower margin or bottom of the terret, as shown.

An external]y-screw-threaded stem B is pendent from the under part of the terret and carries a shoulder b near its upper end. This stem is designed as the means for securing the terret to the gig-saddle or to the hames by entering the same, a suitable nut being preferably screwed upon the lower or outer end of the stem to retain the device in position.

In using this terret the driving-rein is inserted at a point between its ends into the upper part of the terret between the upper bends of the convolutions a a, one strand of the rein being passed over one convolution a and the opposite strand over the opposite convolution a. The rein is now pressed downward, so that its two strands shall pass beyond the extremities of the convolutions a a and allow the rein to extend through the middle of the terret. The operation of removing the rein is simply the reverse of that just described. Thus it will be seen that the reins may be connected to and removed from the terrets 'while the reins are extended from the bridle-bit to the vehicle, all entanglement and twisting of the reins being consequently avoided. It will also be seen that the reins will be retained as eflectively as they would be by an ordinary ring-terret, while all necessity of drawing the reins full length through the terrets is avoided.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An improved harnessterret, having its body portion formed of two or more complete open continuous spiral convolutions, and provided with an attaching-base, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

ALONZO LOBDELL.

Witnesses:

H. G. UNDERWOOD, LAWVSON SCOTT. 

